Daily Archives: June 4, 2008

Psychopaths, platypus, mammalian infants – REM sleep but no dreams may indicate white matter disconnect.

June 4, 2008
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Psychopaths, platypus, mammalian infants – REM sleep but no dreams may indicate white matter disconnect.

Last January I wondered if psychopaths dream — and noted that the only mammal (or maybe one of the few mammals) that doesn’t dream is a platypus. This post follows up, with a discussion of the “Platypus Defense” as part of the murder trial of Hans Reiser. Plus platypus genome and microRNA and transposable...

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